The Last Key

by Sowmya Ramkumar

“Trust is earned by deeds, not words.”

Killer curves are a very temporary attraction phenomenon; eyes could imprison you for an eternity.

Beauty of Eyes.

“But wait!” Shekar almost caught his head and doubled up in his chair, “This is just amazing and how the hell it never struck me till now!” With a few slangs to himself, he continued, “Like the Fibonacci series, everything follows a pattern. According to Hindu texts, there was a fixed age for everything, from birth to death. Tamil years are sixty in total. Any man married for the first time at twenty-five to break celibacy and after he had lived through all the sixty years, remarried the same woman at sixty. After seeing one thousand full and new moons at eighty, it was always formulae, always numbers. It was a patriarchal society and strictly followed these based on the male!”

He suddenly felt very lonely, standing bare amidst a thick pack of wolves waiting to tear him apart with drooling mouths and blood-shot eyes. The drohpraveshaka was very clever.

a soldier could be trained, but a protector can only be replicated.